Hordeum vulgare
Hordeum vulgare
Arpa
Resembling H. distichon in habit, leaves and spikelet morphology, but spikes tetra- or hexastichous in section; lateral spikelets nearly sessile, hermaphrodite and fertile like the central one. Fl. 4-5. Cultivated; also occurring as an escape, nr s.l.-1700 m,
Widely cultivated as a cereal throughout temperate regions and on mountains in the tropics.